And in another picture she appears totally topless, with only a furry white shawl hanging loosely from her shoulders to keep her warm.

In a rare interview with the magazine - which earns the cover line "Sex, drugs and Johnny Depp" - Moss discusses the highs and lows of her 25-year career, at one point confessing: "Nobody takes care of you mentally. There’s a massive pressure to do what you have to do.”

And although Mossy is happy to bare her boobs now, that wasn't always the case.

Recalling a now infamous shoot with celebrated photographer Corinne Day from her early modelling days, she says: "I hated my boobs more than anything as a teenager.

"I’d do anything not to take my top off. But they were like, If you don’t do it, then we’re not going to book you again."

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Moss does her bit to repair the damage done to string vests by Rab C Nesbitt

"So I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There’s a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested. And I had a big mole on one. That picture of me running down the beach — I’ll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.”

Thankfully for Vanity Fair (and red-blooded men everywhere), the model has no such problem now, admitting in another recent interview: "I see nudity as empowering now."

Moss also reveals in the Vanity Fair interview that she regretted doing the 1992 Calvin Klein photo shoot that made her a household name.

“I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts,” she says. “It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks."

And speaking about her brief but intense relationship with Johnny Depp, Moss says the actor made her feel taken care of.

"There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit," she confesses, adding: "That’s what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust. Nightmare. Years and years of crying. Oh, the tears!”